{"id":4874,"date":"2024-10-31T10:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T10:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2024-11-02T03:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T03:56:26","slug":"luncheon-in-hobbiton-touring-hobbiton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=4874","title":{"rendered":"Luncheon In Hobbiton – Touring Hobbiton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Very image heavy, even by my admittedly low standards; You’ve been warned <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m breaking this up into multiple posts, because there are a lot of pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a Too Long: Didn’t Read summary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hobbiton was awesome. I’d say it was like being there, except that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. It’s not a real place, so that’s a weird thing to say<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. To the extent that it is<\/em> a real place, this<\/em><\/strong> is that real place <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I took the tour from Rotorua to Auckland, which involves having my bags shift between buses at Hobbiton, as most of the folks go back to where they started. I’d been a bit concerned about how that’d work, but it turns out that Intercity had a system for that, & Hana the Rotorua driver did the handover to Rachel the Auckland driver, so my bags were moved across about five minutes after we got to the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

    Slightly disappointed that they didn’t go with a riff on “No admittance except on Hobbiton business” for this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Most of my pictures are going to have people from the tour group in them; It’s just the nature of the thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Something I didn’t know about the Hobbiton set is that they had two different sizes of hobbit hole, one for making a regular size person look hobbit sized, and one to make them look regular sized, so depending on which way the camera is pointing, …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    This one was about as deep as a garden shed, so you can pose in it, but not much more?A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Also, that image looks like an album cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    There was a lineup to have photos taken by Sam the tour guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The view from the village green, where the birthday party happens, is fun, because you’ve got details in all directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And it did make me imagine a campground of this design, if the hobbit holes were habitable & used as cabins or chalets. It’d be wildly expensive to build, and maybe not the sort of place that people stay at for more than a night?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The next bit of the tour was inside one of the two kitted-out burrows, covered in the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Very image heavy, even by my admittedly low standards; You’ve been warned I’m breaking this up into multiple posts, because there are a lot of pictures. For a Too Long: Didn’t Read summary? Hobbiton was awesome. I’d say it was like being there, except that I took the tour from Rotorua to Auckland, which involves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[109,106,107,108],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sabbatical","tag-hobbit","tag-hobbiton","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-lotr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-1gC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}